Labors of Division - Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction In Pursuit of Peasant Histories and Futures in Colonial Panjab

1. A Rule of Benevolence? Revenue, Knowledge, and the Accumulation of Difference

2. Naming the Peasant: Colonial Jurisprudence and the Binding of Identity and Occupation

3. The Logic and Illogic of Debt: Reason and Capitalist Volatility in the New Agrarian Market

4. Horizons of Hierarchy: Caste, Landlessness, and the Limits of Religious Conversion

5. Producing a Theory of Inadequacy: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and the Political Economy of Comparison

Conclusion: Global History and the Impermanence of Hierarchy

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Product details

• Authors: Navyug Gill
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781503636958
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-3695-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: South Asia in Motion
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous